The first cup was a little hard to get down, but as I continued to drink, I warmed up to the flavour.
And I had to be at my desk, at my office, with the first cup of coffee, a legal pad and write the first word at 5:30, five days a week.
As far as it can be traced back, a Ukrainian war hero named Yuri Kulczycki brewed the first cup of coffee in Vienna sometime soon after the Battle for Vienna in 1683, in a place called Under the Blue Bottle.
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The youthful Scarlets are undergoing a transitional period and failed to qualify for European rugby's premier cup competition for the first time since the Heineken Cup's first year.
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Wednesday's board meeting was the first the World Cup winner has attended.
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It is honours even between Croatia and Serbia in Split - the first Davis Cup meeting between the two former Yugoslav republics.
The Great Britain team for the first World Cup regatta of the season in Linz, Austria (1-3 June) will be announced in early May.
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He has since transformed the club into play-off contenders while they were also FA Trophy finalists in 2007, when they lost out to Stevenage Borough in the first competitive cup final at the new Wembley.
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It was the first World Cup hat-trick since Portugal's Pauleta in 2002 and the first from an Argentine since Gabriel Batistuta in 1998.
Wigan, who were the lords of Wembley for the best part of 10 years until the 1990s, are now within a game of the first Challenge Cup final back at the rebuilt stadium.
And the first Ryder Cup staged at a purpose-built course will unfortunately be remembered as the first to need a fourth day because of a sodden course.
It was the first Stanley Cup playoff victory at home for the Islanders since April 28, 2002, when they beat Toronto in a first-round game.
EEC, so their teams refused to take part in the first European Cup, but later joined in when they saw the competition was a success.
Leicester centre Dan Hipkiss, who made his debut in the first World Cup warm-up Test against Wales, makes the cut, as does Jamie Noon after a strong display against France.
It was the first World Cup women's race held at Meribel since 1994, and only the sixth ever.
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Djokovic also prevailed when they met in the first round of the Davis Cup three years ago, as his country went on to win the title for the first time.
But Jordaan is confident that the first World Cup to be played in Africa will make the continent proud.
The 22-year-old from Barbados took the first World Cup hat-trick by a West Indian in superb figures of 6-27.
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"We regard the first Worthington Cup final to be staged in Cardiff to have been a great success, " said a spokesman.
Fifa also vowed it would ensure that no confirmed hooligans would make it to the first World Cup finals to be staged in Asia.
But I think my biggest highlight was last year in Madrid when Alistair won the first World Cup he competed in after returning from injury.
The first Hunt Cup took place in 1894, when two fox hunting clubs challenged each other to a race to determine which had the better horsemen.
Fifteen years ago the Blues in their previous incarnation as Cardiff RFC, before the switch to regional teams in Wales, contested the first Heineken Cup final.
To themselves and their fans they are still the giants of old, the kings of the global game who staged and won the first World Cup.
France, the 1998 winners and 2006 runners-up, will play hosts South Africa, Mexico and Uruguay, who staged and triumphed at the first World Cup in 1930.
England are the only one of eight major international sides not to have won an ICC tournament - a miserable run dating back to the first World Cup in 1975.
Organisers are hoping the first World Cup to be played on African soil will produce 'Football for a Better World' and Fifa will flag up preparations on Friday at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate.
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Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott, who won the first World Cup in 1996 with Cigar, said he hopes Royal Delta "breaks well and has a clean trip, " from the No. 8 post.
The 12 group winners and the best eight runners-up advance to the final qualifying phase where they will be split into five groups with the winners joining hosts South Africa at the first World Cup to be staged by Africa.
It means the 26-year-old winger will miss the FA Cup first round should the Fleet qualify.
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